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Myths and Facts about a Career in Software Testing: A Comparison between Students' Beliefs and Professionals' Experience
Ronnie de Souza Santos, Luiz Fernando Capretz, Cleyton Magalhaes +1
Testing is an indispensable part of software development. However, a career in software testing is reported to be unpopular among students in computer science and related areas. Th…
Explainable Software Defect Prediction from Cross Company Project Metrics Using Machine Learning
Susmita Haldar, Luiz Fernando Capretz
Predicting the number of defects in a project is critical for project test managers to allocate budget, resources, and schedule for testing, support and maintenance efforts. Softwa…
A Reference Framework for Variability Management of Software Product Lines
Saiqa Aleem, Luiz Fernando Capretz, Faheem Ahmed
Variability management (VM) in software product line engineering (SPLE) is introduced as an abstraction that enables the reuse and customization of assets. VM is a complex task inv…
What Pakistani Computer Science and Software Engineering Students Think about Software Testing?
Luiz Fernando Capretz, Abdul Rehman Gilal
Software testing is one of the crucial supporting processes of the software life cycle. Unfortunately for the software industry, the role is stigmatized, partly due to misperceptio…
What UAE Software Students Think about Software Testing: A Replicated Study
Luiz Fernando Capretz, Saad Harous, Ali Bou Nassif
Software testing is vital to improve software quality. However, software tester role is stigmatized, partly due to misperception and partly due to the treatment of the testing proc…
Roadblocks to Attracting Students to Software Testing Careers: Comparisons of Replicated Studies
Rodrigo E. C. Souza, Ronnie E. de Souza Santos, Luiz Fernando Capretz +2
Context. Recently, a family of studies highlighted the unpopularity of software testing careers among undergraduate students in software engineering and computer science courses. T…
Social Aspects of Software Testing: Comparative Studies in Asia
Luiz Fernando Capretz, Jingdong Jia, Pradeep Waychal +1
This study attempts to understand motivators and de-motivators that influence the decisions of software students to take up and sustain software testing careers across three differ…
Institutionalization of Software Product Line: An Empirical Investigation of Key Organizational Factors
Faheem Ahmed, Luiz Fernando Capretz, Shahbaz Ali Sheikh
A good fit between the person and the organization is essential in a better organizational performance. This is even more crucial in case of institutionalization of a software prod…
Machine Learning for Stock Prediction Based on Fundamental Analysis
Yuxuan Huang, Luiz Fernando Capretz, Danny Ho
Application of machine learning for stock prediction is attracting a lot of attention in recent years. A large amount of research has been conducted in this area and multiple exist…
Assessing m-Learning Adoption in Higher Education
Muasaad Alrasheedi, Luiz Fernando Capretz
New mobile platforms, connected seamlessly to the Internet via wireless access have become increasingly more powerful and have found usage in a diverse set of application areas, in…
Developing a Suitability Assessment Criteria for Software Developers: Behavioral Assessment Using Psychometric Test
Jayati Gulati, Bharti Suri, Luiz Fernando Capretz +2
Developing a Suitability Assessment Criteria for Software Developers: Behavioral Assessment Using Psychometric Test
Using the DELPHI Method for Model for Role Assignment in the Software Industry
Daniel Varona, Luiz Fernando Capretz
Over the past two decades, there has been a growing interest in modeling the elements that need to be considered when assigning people to roles in software projects, as evidenced b…
Reliability Models for Smartphone Applications
Sonia Meskini, Ali Bou Nassif, Luiz Fernando Capretz
Smartphones have become the most used electronic devices. They carry out most of the functionalities of desktops, offering various useful applications that suit the users needs. Th…
International Comparative Studies on the Software Testing Profession
Luiz Fernando Capretz, Pradeep Waychal, Jingdong Jia +2
This work attempts to fill a gap by exploring the human dimension in particular, by trying to understand the motivation of software professionals for taking up and sustaining their…
Automatic Recall of Software Lessons Learned for Software Project Managers
Tamer Mohamed Abdellatif, Luiz Fernando Capretz, Danny Ho
Lessons learned (LL) records constitute the software organization memory of successes and failures. LL are recorded within the organization repository for future reference to optim…
User Requirements for Software Game Process; An Empirical Investigation
Saiqa Aleem, Luiz Fernando Capretz, Faheem Ahmed +1
This study attempts to provide a better understanding of the user dimension as a factor in software game success. It focuses mainly on an empirical investigation of the effect of u…
HABCSm: A Hamming Based t-way Strategy Based on Hybrid Artificial Bee Colony for Variable Strength Test Sets Generation
Ammar K Alazzawi, Helmi Md Rais, Shuib Basri +4
Search-based software engineering that involves the deployment of meta-heuristics in applicable software processes has been gaining wide attention. Recently, researchers have been…
Recommender Systems for Software Project Managers
Liang Wei, Luiz Fernando Capretz
The design of recommendation systems is based on complex information processing and big data interaction. This personalized view has evolved into a hot area in the past decade, whe…
Practitioners Testimonials about Software Testing
Pradeep Waychal, Luiz Fernando Capretz, Jingdong Jia +2
As software systems are becoming more pervasive, they are also becoming more susceptible to failures, resulting in potentially lethal combinations. Software testing is critical to…
Using an Expert Panel to Validate the Malaysian SMEs-Software Process Improvement Model (MSME-SPI)
Malek Almomani, Shuib Basri, Omar Almomani +4
This paper presents the components of a newly developed Malaysian SMEs - Software Process Improvement model (MSME-SPI) that can assess SMEs soft-ware development industry in managi…
What Malaysian Software Students Think about Testing?
Luiz Fernando Capretz, Shuib Basri, Maythem Adili +1
Software testing is one of the crucial supporting processes of software life cycle. Unfortunately for the software industry, the role is stigmatized, partly due to misperception an…
The Unpopularity of the Software Tester Role among Software Practitioners: A Case Study
Yadira Lizama, Daniel Varona, Pradeep Waychal +1
As software systems are becoming more pervasive, they are also becoming more susceptible to failures, resulting in potentially lethal combinations. Software test-ing is critical to…
Updating Weight Values for Function Point Counting
Wei Xia, Danny Ho, Luiz Fernando Capretz +1
While software development productivity has grown rapidly, the weight values assigned to count standard Function Point (FP) created at IBM twenty-five years ago have never been upd…
An Empirical Study of User Support Tools in Open Source Software
Arif Razza, Luiz Fernando Capretz, Shuib Basri
End users positive response is essential for the success of any software. This is true for both commercial and Open Source Software (OSS). OSS is popular not only because of its av…